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Driver clocked at 243 km/h south of Merritt, car impounded
MERRITT - B.C. RCMP Traffic Services reminded drivers they have little tolerance for excessive speeders.A driver in a 2016 Corvette was caught traveling 243 km/h - more than twice the speed limit - on...
Apr 19, 2021

AP source: Guantanamo prisoners now getting COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON - Prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre can begin getting the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Monday, a senior defence official told The Associated Press, months after a plan to inoc...
Apr 19, 2021

University of Victoria women's rowing coach resigns by mutual agreement
VICTORIA - The University of Victoria says the head coach of its women's rowing program has resigned effective immediately. In a statement posted on the school's varsity athletics website, it says the...
Apr 19, 2021

University of Victoria women's rowing coach resigns by mutual agreement
VICTORIA - The University of Victoria says the head coach of its women's rowing program has resigned effective immediately. In a statement posted on the school's varsity athletics website, it says the...
Apr 19, 2021

Flood warning, watches issued as river levels in B.C. Interior swell with snowmelt
VANCOUVER - Flood warnings and watches were in effect for a wide area of British Columbia's Interior because of snowmelt after several days of unseasonably hot weather, causing rivers and streams to s...
Apr 19, 2021

More than 30,000 COVID-19 vaccines delivered in Kamloops to date
KAMLOOPS - Enough COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Kamloops to cover nearly half of city's adult population.As of Monday (April 19), Interior Health Medical Health Officer Dr. Carol Fe...
Apr 19, 2021

Large Merritt-area development removes casino from proposal
MERRITT, B.C. - The proposed Hamilton Hill development will be back in front of Merritt council on Tuesday night with one major change.The developer has removed the casino from the plans."The revised ...
Apr 19, 2021

Prosecutor: FedEx shooter didn't have 'red flag' hearing
INDIANAPOLIS - A former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana's "red flag" law, even after his mother ...
Apr 19, 2021

All of Iqaluit's COVID-19 cases are adults, most in their 20s and 30s
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says all those currently infected with COVID-19 in Iqaluit are adults. Dr. Michael Patterson also says about three-quarters of them are in thei...
Apr 19, 2021

Alberta scientists urge adoption of bill that would protect against coal mining
EDMONTON - Some 35 scientists from the University of Alberta are urging the provincial government to rethink its plans for expanding coal-mining in the Rocky Mountains. The researchers, all from the u...
Apr 19, 2021

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